When Parents Speak and Practitioners Listen: A Bottom-Up Workshop on Early Childhood Interventions among Borana Pastoralists, Ethiopia

More than a one-time event, it modeled what bottom-up communication looks like in practice: slow, uncomfortable at times, but essential for interventions that genuinely serve the communities they claim to support. The question now is whether this dialogue can be sustained and whether the institutional structures governing ECD work can adapt to accommodate the epistemological shift it demands.

Thus, without systemic reforms, even well-designed forums for dialogue may serve merely as symbolic gestures rather than generating substantive transformational outcomes.</p>